A personal reflection on Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, 30 years after its drug-fuelled repugnance and ‘Cool Britannia’ sheen ...

Body-horror auteur David Cronenberg returned to favoured themes in 2024, in a film unsentimentally focused centred on grief ...

The Liberals planning to bring down their first female leader are aware of the optics, but are more afraid of plunging ...

The acclaimed Australian crime writer had a deep appreciation for the folly of things Email was invented entirely for the benefit of Peter Temple. He knew this and he made full use of the fact. From ...

Many questions are being asked after the Bondi Beach shootings, and the hardest ones to address are the most important for our nation’s wellbeing On Sunday evening while driving home, I received a ...

Wahidullah Waissi, Australian ambassador for Afghanistan, at the G7+ Ministerial Meeting in Dili, Timor-Leste, April 2025 As Taliban consular officers are permitted to enter Germany, attention turns ...

2025: Donald Trump’s presidency has given Australia the chance to recover its distinctive voice in world affairs We are experiencing another bout of panic about whether or not we are loved by America, ...

2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...

There is little I can add to this searing, stunning open letter, lest I be guilty of trying to summarise it myself. But it is rather unfortunate that the people who most need to read it are the people ...

Concern about the welfare of AI has got ahead of convincingly arguing it can become conscious Sometimes a question is a doorway. You are just standing there idly wondering Where did language come from ...

A key architect of the corruption commission calls for its head to resign after the latest controversy The commissioner of the two-year-old National Anti-Corruption Commission, Paul Brereton, has ...